Show HEARD IN HEAVEN I 1 paced the platform body and mind and brain dulled by the deadly cold what time the tram train too tardy came not a darkening noon in bleak december 1 low w ja i the east red mars rose bose large and lurid and a slender moon lay like a finger on the lip of night Oom commanding manding dlug silence neath the silent star perched on a bench with wistful face and white with tremble a bare legs red and raw and hands blue a tiny child I 1 saw who thinly clad sat blithe and brave and bright oroon crooning ing some baby lay lav what song she sang that little maid the while her wee voice rang so bo shy and low whether some childish chime olden and quaint of fairy airy and fay a snatch of nursery rhyme or hymn or prayer I 1 knew not nor shall know but bat long ago one this word no sparrow falls its dying cry unheard though feeble and fint f int and IL 1 am sure that he who hears the bird heard that sweet plaint 0 0 E x |